"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
10/15/2019 at 15:04 • Filed to: None
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"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
10/15/2019 at 15:04 • Filed to: None | 5
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I took the racecar off the trailer this weekend for a good cleaning and warmup. It may or may not have driven around the block. It cleans up reasonably well for an old racecar.
Like always it remains race ready. Someday I’ll get it racing for real again, or not instead of occasionally renting some track time and running laps. I’d be lying if I haven’t been thinking about what it costs, what I really want to with my free time and money, what that would mean for my budget and vehicular situation.
If any Oppos want to play racecar for real, I may or may not be putting this up for sale soon. I had originally planned to sell it when I resurrected it a couple of years ago, but then fell in love with it again, painted it, and then had the the great vehicle exchange of 2017. It still isn’t worth much money, but at least now I would feel like I’ve done right by a car that has been in my family since it was new in 1988.
PartyPooper2012
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2019 at 15:15 |
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<< sheds a tear>>
I miss my baby. My first love. My precious
Yours is very close to what mine was. Red 1989 LS. Mine was not a race car, but it was raced... inappropriately.
I can’t justify buying it. My wife would kill me. Then leave me. Then come back and stab me one last time.
But it is beautiful. Even if it has a little battle scar around right front leg
Chariotoflove
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2019 at 15:25 |
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Looking good. Now, where do you mount the laptop that controls the nitrous injection, and now many times can you shift in a quarter mile?
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> PartyPooper2012
10/15/2019 at 15:29 |
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A bit more than a battle scar, but the hasty repair has worked for years and it catches the alignment just fine even if the right front corner of the car isn’t in exactly the right place. That said, if I had thought the paint I sprayed in my garage was going to come out even half as well I would’ve tracked down a new fender and maybe even front bumper assembly. The new hood was hard enough to find. It took weeks to find, and it may or may not be one of the last 8 hoods out there to be had for a 1st g en Integra. Used hoods prove to not exist anymore for these cars.
I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2019 at 15:29 |
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...I did not know about this. Neat.
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PartyPooper2012
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2019 at 15:40 |
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These cars tend to not exist anymore. I think you have one of 3 that are known to exist (I may be exaggerating a tad)
Seeing how 97 Integra R Type just sold for 83k, maybe worth taking it to a body shop later and straightening things out. putting it up on BAT.... if.... iffff you wanted to part with it... which obviously is heresy and sacrilegious and punishable by unthinkable punishments.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> PartyPooper2012
10/15/2019 at 16:09 |
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Eh, the market for old IT cars is about $ 5-10k at most (also why it fantastically cheaper to buy a used racecar than build your own). My car isn't built to limit of the rules, and it isn't an ideal car for the class in the first place.
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> Chariotoflove
10/15/2019 at 16:14 |
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I suppose I could shift all the times in a 1/4 mile, but the number of times I would actually need to shift would be not past 4th gear. There is all the room for mounting the laptop, but I think tech would take issue with flammable compresed gases in the car on track.